• A framework for results-based management in fisheries 

      Nielsen, Kåre Nolde; Aschan, Michaela; Agnarsson, Sveinn; Ballesteros, Marta; Baudron, Alan; Borges, Maria de Fatima; Campos, Aida; Chapela, Rosa; Daníelsdóttir, Anna Kristin; Erzini, Karim; Gregersen, Olavur; Holm, Petter; Lucchetti, Alessandro; Margeirsson, Sveinn; Mendes, Hugo Vilela; Olsen, Petter; Rangel, Mafalda; Sala, Antonello; Santiago, José Luis; Sigurdardottir, Sigridur; Silva, Cristina; Sykes, Daryl; Vidarsson, Jonas Runar; Virgili, Massimo; Wise, Laura; Fernandes, Paul George (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-10-30)
      We present a framework for results-based management (RBM) of commercial fisheries. The core idea of RBM is to reduce micromanagement by delegating management responsibility to resource users. The RBM framework represents an industrial organization approach to co-management and comprises three defining processes, conducted by three independent “agents”: (i) an “authority” defines specific and ...
    • Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of marine science and policy 

      Karcher, Denis B.; Cvitanovic, Christopher; van Putten, Ingrid E.; Colvin, Rebecca M.; Armitage, Derek; Aswani, Shankar; Ballesteros, Marta; Ban, Natalie C.; Barragán-Paladines, María José; Bednarek, Angela; Bell, Johann D.; Brooks, Cassandra M.; Daw, Tim M.; de la Cruz-Modino, Raquel; Francis, Tessa B.; Fulton, Elizabeth A.; Hobday, Alistair J.; Holcer, Draško; Hudson, Charlotte; Jennerjahn, Tim C.; Kinney, Aimee; Knol-Kauffman, Maaike; Löf, Marie F.; Lopes, Priscila F.M.; Mackelworth, Peter C.; McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail; Muhl, Ella-Kari; Neihapi, Pita; Pascual-Fernández, José J.; Posner, Stephen M.; Runhaar, Hens; Sainsbury, Keith; Sander, Gunnar; Steenbergen, Dirk J.; Tuda, Paul M.; Whiteman, Elizabeth; Zhang, Jialin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-19)
      Evidence-informed decision-making is in increasing demand given growing pressures on marine environments. A way to facilitate this is by knowledge exchange among marine scientists and decision-makers. While many barriers are reported in the literature, there are also examples whereby research has successfully informed marine decision-making (i.e., ‘bright-spots’). Here, we identify and analyze 25 ...
    • Pulling mechanisms and pushing strategies: How to improve Ecosystem Advice Fisheries Management advice within the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy 

      Ramirez-Monsalve, Paulina; Nielsen, Kåre Nolde; Ballesteros, Marta; Kirkfeldt, Trine; Dickey-Collas, Mark; Delaney, Alyne; Hegland, Troels Jacob; Raakjær, Jesper; Degnbol, Poul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-17)
      While European policies have progressed towards an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM), limited attention has been paid to the implications for its advisory system. This paper analyses the advisory landscape in the European Union (EU) by addressing two questions: to what extent can the needed advice be provided? how prepared is the management system to integrate ecosystem advice? We ...
    • Steps to unlocking ecosystem based fisheries management: Towards displaying the N dimensional potato 

      Pope, John; Hegland, Troels Jacob; Ballesteros, Marta; Nielsen, Kåre Nolde; Mika, Rahikainen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-28)
      Any ecosystem based fisheries management system is necessarily faced with the problem of multiple objectives that trade-off against one another. Typically, objectives such as the maximization of yield, employment or profit or minimizing environmental impacts will be optimized in different parts of the decision space, which is formed of the fishing mortality rates that can be applied to the various ...